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DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the ex
hibition Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities\, by artist Tomá
s Saraceno\, on view at the museum through May 21\, 2017. Organized by the
SFMOMA Architecture and Design department\, the exhibition includes an im
mersive site-specific cloudscape installation of suspended tension structu
res and floating sculptures\, as well as explorations of the intricate con
structions of spider webs.\n“Visually provocative and conceptually rigorou
s\, Saraceno’s practice merges art\, architecture and science in a compell
ing\, pragmatic and poetic way\,” said Joseph Becker\, associate curator o
f architecture and design at SFMOMA.\nStillness in Motion—Cloud Cities is
part of Saraceno’s larger\, long-term project titled Aerocene\, the artist
’s vision for a future era in which humanity minimizes the impact on the p
lanet’s fossil-fuel resources\, and instead resides in collective airborne
cities.\n“Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities is about becoming airborne\, n
ot to fly but to float in the air at the speed of solar aerostatics\, from
cumulonimbus cities to the cosmic web\,” said Saraceno. “Aerocene is an i
nvitation to shape a post fossil-fuel epoch\, in a cloudscape of interconn
ected spheres of practices that include open\, participatory platforms of
knowledge production and distribution\; models\; data\; and sensitivity to
the more-than-human world. These airborne cities floating among the cloud
s (just as Earth floats in the cosmic plane) call for scalable mental\, so
cial and environmental ecologies.”\nIn the exhibition\, visitors are encou
raged to wind their way through and below a geometrically complex array of
cords and reflective panels\, forming a cloud of 10\,000 nodes suspended
in the air by tension and connected to the gallery walls\, floor and ceili
ng. This site-specific work is inspired by multiple phenomena and structur
es\, including the social construction of spider webs\, stellar and atmosp
heric clouds\, bubble and foam geometry and social and neural communicatio
n networks.\nIntended as a collective sensorial experience\, Saraceno’s im
mersive installation works are captivating spaces that challenge viewers’
relationships to the world. His work resonates with several other great ex
perimental thinkers whose radical work exploded the boundaries of art and
architecture in the mid-20th century—from the structural explorations of a
rtists like Gyula Kosice\, to the utopian impulses of Buckminster Fuller\;
from Italo Calvino’s fictional universes to the futuristic urban visions
of Archigram in London and the countercultural movement embodied by the mu
ltidisciplinary work of Ant Farm in the Bay Area.\nSaraceno’s exhibition u
nderlines SFMOMA’s longstanding commitment to experimentation and conceptu
al practice in art and architecture\, and his airborne cities build upon t
he forward-thinking radicalism and progressive social change which has con
tinually been a focus of SFMOMA’s Architecture and Design collection. Stil
lness in Motion—Cloud Cities will illuminate the powerful and inspiring co
nnections between art\, science and architecture at the gallery\, urban an
d even planetary scale.\n\nMajor support for Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in
Motion—Cloud Cities is provided by Roberta and Steve Denning. Generous su
pport is provided by Patricia W. Fitzpatrick\, Diana Nelson and John Atwat
er and Denise Littlefield Sobel. Additional support is provided by The San
ger Family. \nAbout the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\nSFMOMA is dedi
cated to making the art for our time a vital and meaningful part of public
life. Founded in 1935 as the first West Coast museum devoted to modern an
d contemporary art\, a thoroughly transformed SFMOMA\, with triple the gal
lery space\, an enhanced education center and new public galleries\, opene
d to the public on May 14\, 2016.\n\nVisit sfmoma.org or call T 415 357 40
00 for more information.
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA): Stillness in Motion—Cl
oud Cities
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DESCRIPTION:Tomás Saraceno with Chris Flink\, Executive Director of Explora
torium
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LOCATION:Curran @ FOG Theater\, Fog Design+Art Fair
SUMMARY:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA): Tomás Saraceno: Stilln
ess in Motion—Cloud Cities / In conversation
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